Claude Auchinleck1 July 1942
Holds the Axis advance at El Alamein, preventing Rommel from breaking through toward Alexandria and the Suez Canal.
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Holds the Axis advance at El Alamein, preventing Rommel from breaking through toward Alexandria and the Suez Canal.
Auchinleck halts Rommel's advance at the First Battle of El Alamein, gaining time for the defence of Egypt.
The First Battle of El Alamein ends with the Axis advance checked and the Allied line intact.
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